Finance Business Controller Europe

Join TAG Heuer, where heritage meets innovation. Since 1860, TAG Heuer has fused Swiss avant-garde watchmaking with the high stakes of sport. Passion, bold design, and technical mastery bring our craftsmanship to life. Here, your ambition is supported by tailored learning opportunities, a stimulating and inclusive culture, and the resources you need to win—every day. Together, we shape the future of watchmaking and take on new challenges. Are you ready to make a difference with us?

Reporting to the Managing Director Europe and based in Signy (Switzerland), the Finance Business Controller is part of the regional Executive Committee and working closely with our 7 European subsidiaries.

Job responsibilities

Your main accountabilities will be the following:

Business partnering with Europe Managing Director

• Contribute to strategic planning and development as a member of the regional Executive Team
• Manage region’s profitability and drive investments choices accordingly
• Responsibility for the overall financial management, budget, forecasting and internal reporting processes for the region
• Drive continuous improvement in financial planning and reporting processes, leveraging automation and advanced analytics tools
• Close monitoring of all distribution channels

Regional financial consolidation & drive on P&L targets

• Coordinate all activities needed to develop budget and periodic revisions, collecting data from the markets, verifying consistency and providing an accurate aggregation of data before transmission to HQ/Division/Group stakeholders
• Perform periodic analysis of actual versus budget (costs, sales, investments, margins, etc.) to identify the causes of possible discrepancies and propose corrective actions
• Ensure corporate compliance as per regulatory and legal requirements
• Drive performance through accurate analysis of sales, distribution, SISO equations, products activations

Coordination & animation of Finance community in markets

• Indirect management of markets Finance Managers
• Coordinate and assist Country GMs and Finance Managers to carry out the Budgeting and Reporting activities
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and act as a support to local teams

Facilitation & roll out of all operations processes & KPIs

• Define a clear vision for all operations processes (demand planning, business planning, merchandising) and oversee projects for the region
• Cooperate with IT teams to implement new functionalities & tools
• Direct management of a regional team of 3 (Regional Business Planner, IT Manager, Business Analyst).

Profile

• Master’s degree in finance or economics
• 8+ years’ experience in a financial business partner role within a retail and wholesale environment
• Proven good understanding of operations in a customer service-oriented business
• Experience in the analysis and evaluation of performance data, both financial and operational
• Commercially astute with the ability to process complex information and able to influence investment choices
• Experience of financial governance processes, including risk management and internal audit
• Professionalism, conscientiousness, reliability and integrity
• Able to prioritize and plan own workload in accordance with strict deadlines
• Ability to work proactively and independently, to handle change and to work as part of a team
• Good knowledge of SAP, BO/BI, Advanced Excel and Power Point
• Fluent in English and French
• Strong Transversal leadership towards highly qualified teams GM, CFO, HQ stakeholders

1860, Saint-Imier at the very heart of the birthplace of watchmaking. A young ambitious watchmaker decides to found his own brand. His name: Edouard Heuer. At just 20 years old, he was to revolutionize the watchmaking industry by breaking away from the established rules. Ever since that time, TAG Heuer’s vocation has been to push back the boundaries and defy convention to invent incredible watches and chronographs of extreme precision. The invention of the oscillating pinion in 1887 exemplified this spirit, streamlining the chronograph’s design and enhancing its responsiveness—a principle that underpins our engineering philosophy even today. Then came the 1916 Mikrograph, the first stopwatch accurate to 1/100th of a second, cementing TAG Heuer's reputation as the precision timekeeper in competitive sports. Indeed, the world of TAG Heuer is intimately linked to motor racing and the division of time into infinitely small units, but its aura extends well beyond this arena. Capturing TAG Heuer’s ethos, our prominent partnerships and brand ambassadors express the brand’s passion for action and high performance. These include the Oracle Red Bull Racing Formula 1 Team, the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team, the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix Historique, the World Endurance Championships and the Indianapolis 500. As for TAG Heuer ambassadors, they all share the ability to stand up to pressure, constantly pushing their limits. This illustrious group includes motorsport legends Ayrton Senna and Steve McQueen, Hollywood icons Ryan Gosling, Patrick Dempsey, Alexandra Daddario, and Wi Ha Jun, and tennis stars Naomi Osaka, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Petra Kvitovà. The brand's spirit of adventure is further represented by big wave surfers Kai Lenny and Maya Gabeira, alongside rising athletes such as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Fred Kerley, Summer McIntosh, and Sky Brown.

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